Use of drawing iProperties in DWG template...

[Anonymous]

I am curious to know how many people are using the iProprties to populate
their title blocks and how widely used is the practice of enternng this
data in every drawing by most users.

I found that I had to create several custom fields to collect additional
info that I wanted in our title blocks. I was surprised that some of the
ones I needed were not already there.

Such as:

Drawing Number
Material


It becomes a headache that you have to switch between about 4 pages on the
iProperties dialog pages wo get everything filled in.

[Steve Bahr]

I use model and drawing iProperties for my custom drawing templates.

The advantage I like with iProperties is working with multiple sheet drawings. You can load a view of the model onto the second sheet, or drag a view onto it from the first sheet and your title block is instantly populated with the same iProperties as your first sheet.

Sure, you still have some data entry to do, but you do it up front and you do it only once. You might have a few prompted entries like sheet number and drawing scale to deal with on a per sheet basis but this method, I believe, is preferable to using prompted entries.

Steve

[Anonymous]

Check out my iPropeditor, one page, preset values (that can be entered in a
textfile), creates custom iProps when missing, can be configured per file
type. Best of all, it's free!One drawback, it comes in a package, so you'll
get a lot more than you asked for...
http://www.joinengineering.com/downloads/JOIN%20Setup%20v1.1.90.msi. I'm
working on a tweak feature, so you can enable/disable the features you like.


wrote in message news:5873917@discussion.autodesk.com...
I am curious to know how many people are using the iProprties to populate
their title blocks and how widely used is the practice of enternng this
data in every drawing by most users.

I found that I had to create several custom fields to collect additional
info that I wanted in our title blocks. I was surprised that some of the
ones I needed were not already there.

Such as:

Drawing Number
Material


It becomes a headache that you have to switch between about 4 pages on the
iProperties dialog pages wo get everything filled in.

[Anonymous]

Does this tool pack run well on the Inventor LT 2008 Preview? I am getting
2008 full version soon, but I am using LT for now.




"Joeri" wrote in message
news:5874449@discussion.autodesk.com...
Check out my iPropeditor, one page, preset values (that can be entered in a
textfile), creates custom iProps when missing, can be configured per file
type. Best of all, it's free!One drawback, it comes in a package, so you'll
get a lot more than you asked for...
http://www.joinengineering.com/downloads/JOIN%20Setup%20v1.1.90.msi. I'm
working on a tweak feature, so you can enable/disable the features you like.


wrote in message news:5873917@discussion.autodesk.com...
I am curious to know how many people are using the iProprties to populate
their title blocks and how widely used is the practice of enternng this
data in every drawing by most users.

I found that I had to create several custom fields to collect additional
info that I wanted in our title blocks. I was surprised that some of the
ones I needed were not already there.

Such as:

Drawing Number
Material


It becomes a headache that you have to switch between about 4 pages on the
iProperties dialog pages wo get everything filled in.